The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

TEE CIVIL WAB IN ABIED,ICA, (Front tice, liazes Corresponeent.) NEW YORK, ?Jay 31. General Gant having discovered that the direct road to Richmond, to be traversed with the iota of from 10,000 to 15,600 men per mile, was practically impassable, has changed his tactics. Twice he at tempted, in a series of battles extending over ten days, to cut his way by sheer brute force through the obstacles opposed to his march, and twice, if not actually beaten back, he was foiled with tre mendous slaughter. At his third halting-place on the bank of the North Anna, he found the impedi ments much more formidable than those of the Wilderness cr ;:ilpottsylvania Court-house, and paused to consider what was to be done. The par tisans, bath of the North and the South, were equally anxious that at this point he should once more try the mettle of his legions. The Federalists had an idea that Lee's army was decimated, demor alised, and hopeless, and that Grant had only to fight with the fierceness and tenacity of his open ing battles to overbear all opposition, scatter the panic-stricken hosts of the South, and rush con. quering and to conquer into Richmond. The Con federates, on the contrary, maintained that the position between the North and the South Anna was that in which, above all others, Lee would have preferred to try conclusions with his adversary, and that it was the place on which he had lavished all the resources of his military and engineering skill. For these reasons they hoped that Grant would resort to his old policy, and risk everything upon the issues of battle. Grant took time for reflection. He studied the work to be done, anl after a repose of several days, varied only by an occasional skirmish between the outposts and a few feints to discover the whereabouts of particular divisions of the opposing army, came to the conclusion that the position was in all respects what it was represented to be, and was only to be taken at such an awful sacrifice of life as to make it cruel, if not insane, to attempt it, He, therefore, determined upon another flank movement, and hastily, secretly, and successfully transferred his whole army by forced marches to the north bank of the Pamunkey—a river formed by the junction of the North and South Anna—where he took up a new position at Hanovertown, within about 15 miles of Richmond. On Sunday he crossed the Pamun key, and occupied a position about three miles to the south of the stream. Should the attempt to enter Richmond by ; this route prove as hope less as those previously made, we may next expect to hear of this alert and indefatigable in vader at M'Clellan's old quarters amid the swamps of the chickahominy ; or, giving these the go-by, because of their noted unhealthiness during the summer heats, which have already begun to blaze upon the land with a fury equal to that of the dog bays in our milder Europe, he will perhaps effect a junction with General Butler at Bermuda Hundred, on the James, and try to break into Richmond by the back door. It will be observed that in all these movements General Grant keeps the rivers and his transports behind him, and that in case of defeat he can save his army from destruction by the aid of a numerous and well-appointed flotilla both on the Rappahannock and the James. It will be observed that the strategy leaves Washington undefended; and that while he " pounds away" (the popular phrase just now) at lii,:l;Lond, Lee may leave the Southern capital to General Beausegarci and 40,000 or 50,000 men—quite adequate for its defence—and march to the Northern capital with the remainder of his army, either by the Shenandoah or the direct route. It is not considered, however, by military critics that Lee will undertake an expedition of this magnitude, but that a series of battles on the Chicka hominy will either give him the victory or force him into Richmond. But amid all this din of war the din of politics is not silenced. The Baltimore Convention meets this day week to nominate Mr. Lincoln for re-elec tion, and towards that pleasant city are flocking the delegates from all pe.rte of the country—the great shoddy interest, the contracting interest, the place holding interest, the place-expecting interest, and that very numerous class of political thinkers who, without much respect for Mr. Lincoln's character, and none for his abilities, aro sincerely of opinion that a change in the Presidency at a time like this is a national peril. Oae section of Mr. _Lincoln's quondam supporters and present opponents have endeavoured to forestall or de:eat the action of the Baltimore Convention by summoning an indepen dent Convention of all parties at Cleveland, in Ohio. That Convention opens its deliberations to-day. Though all parties have been summoned, none but Itepublic, 7 .4ns have been erected, and these, to the number of between 1.500 and 2,000 have swarmed into Cleveland with bat one purpose in their minds nominate General Fremont. They are sincere in their convictions that " State rights" are of no farther use in the government of America ; that their day has gone by; that State lines must be so far obliterated as to be of no greater political value than the lines of a county or a town - ship; that a great and homogeneous nation and a strong Go vernment must be created cut of the ruins of the Federative system ; that slavery, serfdom, and social Lind political disqualification on nccount of colour must be abolished ; that the Monroe doctrine must be maintained at all Lezrda; that General Fremont is Can able, the consistent, and the Proved champion of "free speech, free soil, and free mon," and of all the ideas that naturally grow out of them ; that be is a gentleman as well as a statesman, and fitted both by his manners and his education to reflect honour upon the chief magistracy, instead of making it a laughing-stock in the eyes of the world ; and that for these and countless other reasons, of which the egregious in capacity of Mr. Lincoln is not the least, it is both the duty and the policy of the Republican party to unite their vote in his favour. The Germans in the West, who are declared to be a unit on the question, are enthusiastic fcr the" Pathfiader ;" the Germans Nc>fir York and other largo cities go with their countrymen ; and as they have the support o f t h e churchts and of such men as Dr. Cueaver, I) c .T yng, Mr. Ward Beecher, and Mr. Wendell Phillips, and • the great bu± of the educated and contemplative Abolitionist party, who deispiss Mr. Lincoln for his wont of manners and education, aEd distrust him for his Inkewarmnees in the cause, w hi c h appears to thun too sacred to ba taken up or lei; f 3.11 as expe diency may dictate, it is all but certain that the Cleveland nomination will be as enthuEiastic for Fremont as that at Baltimcre promises to be for Lincoln, A few friends of Gen. Grant have rnuatered at Cleveland, as they will pronably do at Baltimore, to urge the claims of the hero of Vicksburg upon the gratitude of his countrymen ; but as Grant bas not asked for the nomination—as it is not certain that he would accept it, if offared—as it is not known to any one that he hasany political principles at all, or any talents except those which find their normal exercise in the c.Lnap or the battle-field--ana as, moreover, his defeat on the Chickahote icy or at Ber muda Hundred would make an end of him as thoroughly in a political as in a military sense, and consign him to obscure service on the Indian fron tier, or perhaps to private life at his tan-yard in Missouri, hi s friends labour under many disad vantages in pressing his claims, a nd are no t likely to advance his prospects - at either convention. Oa the other hand, if signal, undoubted victory should reward his efforts before Richmond, he will need no aid of ccnventions to jump into the Presidential chair. Success in the field would make him Presi dent in spite of himself, so that in view of all the circumstances his friends but waste their energies in premature discussions of his candidacy. The mass meeting summoned for Saturd ay evening next in Union-square, in this city, with the o bj rct of nominating him to the Presidency by acc l amation of the crowd inster,d of by the ordinary Inachic ery of a party conven ti on , will, of course, afford t h e opportunity of speech-making end speech -hearing, . .. both so dearly beloved by the Yankee mu ltitude, but will be of no further importance, unless, on or before that particular day, the victory his friends expect shell have been fairly won. In that improbable contingency the meeting would become a fortunate accident, and be the signal and forerunner of a series of popular gatherings, the force of 'which no other candidate could help to withstand. The friends of General IvlTlellan keep discreetly quiet. Their convention will not be held until the end of June, during which time the claims put for ward on behalf of but not by General Grant will probably be decided one way or another by him.ielf or General Lee. With Grant as President, General APC:ellen would, doubtless, be reinstated in high command, so that APClellan's pole2y to watch and wai!, and take advantage of any divisions in the ranks of his opponents which may serve to keep his name before the public, and gather round it the great Conservative party that still believe in State rights, and see in a centralised Government the inevitable downfall of republican liberty. If he could serve that party as President, he could also serve it as Commander-in-Chief, Thus Grant's success or failure will kqually servo his purpose. In the one case he may be at the head of the army; in the other at the head of ,the State, so that he, of all men, has most reason to maintain his soul in peace and leave events to their natural solution. Mr Lincoln's temporary suppression of the World and the Journal of Commerce for being as ready to be deceived by a forgery as his Secretary of State in Washington and his Ambassador in London has considerably damaged his popularity. In America a man is either very much praised or very much execrated. The people have no medium in their love or hate. Their generals must either be Napoleons or "stunted corporals," and their lead ing men paragons of honesty and virtue, or knaves arid imbeciles. Mr Lincoln has had his "heated term," in which it was the fashion to endow him with every possible good quality, and in which, if a blunder were brought home to him, the all-sufficient excuse and palliative was found in his immeasurable and unprecedented honesty. The cold fit is now upon his reputation, and he who was so great before finds none to do him reverence, except those who expect favour or fortune at his hands. The journal which was the first to recom mend him for re-election has changed its tone, and denounces him with a virulence of ill-will of which no journal in the world is so great or so mean an exemplar. It states that the renomination of Mr Lincoln will be an attempt to perpetuate the petty despotisms, the gross corruptions, and the unparalleled abuses of the past four years, and that the slightest probability of his success will intensely infuriate the masses of the people; that the politi cians, by simply nominating two or three weak candidates, may allow Lincoln to slip in between them ; but that if this old game, frequently played and generally successful, be attempted while the people are in their present temper, it will not answer for the consequences. It adds that "riots, burnings, assassinations, barricades, and a revolution will probably ensue, All that the people want is a fair chance to defeat Lincoln. Give them that by nominating such a man as Grant, and all will be well. Attempt to cheat them out of it by nominating half a dozen weak men in order to divide the opposition vote, and Lincoln's re-election will be the signal for such an upheaval of the North as has never before been witnessed." It requires but little knowledge of the American character to know that this wicked prophecy will not be fulfilled, and that if Mr. Lincoln were elected by a legal vote —whether resulting from the split in his own or the opposing party—the people would very quietly submit to the infliction. The danger to the public peace does not lie in that direction. A defeat of Grant and a call for another half a million of men, to be taken from the ranks of labour by conscription, are the rccks ahead. The people respect the civil law but they chafe at the introduction of a military law which would deprive them of their liberty, and is in opposition to their prejudice and whole course of life and thought. They detest and abhor the conscription, and rather than submit to it they will run any risk of violence in opposing it, as every homeowner and capitalist in New York well knows, and as every public man of the least foresight is but too thoroughly convinced. Neither is there much danger of such a mult;plicity of candidates as will greatly increase Mr. Lincoln's chances. Banks and Butler are out of the way— ruined by military failure ; and there remain but Grant, M'Clellan, Lincoln, and Fremont. In the sweat of any mishap to Grant, it seems as if the real struggle will lie between the Itsvolntionists and Radicals under Fremont,and the Conservatives under M.Ciellan, and that poor Mr. Lincoln will have to quit his perilous honours and his thorny chair in 18G3, and retire to Illinois to practise law in the couniy of Eaugamon. Happy will it be for him if at the end of his troubled career, health, a good appetite, and the power to indulge in his little jokcs be still left to him ; happy also if he do not expect the gratitude which he will never obtain, or any other place in his country's history but that reserved for all weak men of good intentions, who do mischief withoat meaning it, and ruin the coun try which it was their ambition to save. The price of gold, which y esterdy ran suddenly up to 041, the highest yet attained, dropped to-day to MI; but not in consequence of any favourable news from the army or other cirounistances tending tc restore the drooping spirits of the people, butbecause Mr Chase was represented in Wall street by an agent authorised to sell a surplus, real or supposed, in the National Treasury. The agent threw half a million of gold and sterling bills into the market, with the solo object of reducing the premium, and accom plished it. Mr Chase thereby sacrificed the sum of 30,000 dots. end upwards, for the poor satisfaction of milking financial matters look six per cent. less gloomy to-morrow on the departure of the Persia than they could have done had he not been in readiness to discount fora time the bull operators of the Exchange. No one expects gold will remain at the lower level to which it was thus forced, not even if victory in Georgia or Virginia should occur to prevent a too rapid rise. It is understood better than it used to be that it is the irnmen3e volume of ;he paper currency and not the varying military 'ortanes of the day which causes the depreciation n greenbacks. No victory that does not end the war will put paper and gold on a level ; and that the war will be ended even by the capture of Rich mond few are now so sanguine as to believe. 1 TEE SCENE OF THE IMPENDING BATTLE.—The situation of both the opposing armies in Virginia is slch, a; the latest advices, that a battle may be considered imminent. In view of this fact a brief topographical descrip tion of the battle-field may not be uninteresting. Both armies are now in Hanover county, with the North Anna en the north and the Chickahominy on the south. Lee's army, as is announced in official despatches from General Grant, is on Mechanicsville• road, south of the Tolopotonion river, one of the tributaries of the Pamunkey, and between that Grove. str eam and H awes ' s s h op, w i t h hi s r i g h t rest i ng on Shady The surface of H a n over coun ty i s hill y , an d th e l sandy, but there are few natural impediments to the operation of an army. Hanover Court house, the county scat, is memorable as the scene of Patrick Henry's early career, and as the birthplace of Henry Clay. The object of Lee will be to preserve the rebel capital from the advance of iitnelihnied to give hi s enemy General Grant, an dfor this reason he has selected a field g h ways leading t o Ri c h mon d. Gene rd, and the re f ore has ordered the destruction no oppor tuuity rt u oa l lmG ! c o h rvae c nn o t v os e re r t ia lv2 l a l t The road from Hano vertown crosses this of the bridges ov er Little an d the North A nna rivers. Lee ', I t e h f e t — c iscskuanrb y hat he faces to th e south— is protected by stream at Mechanicsville, which is on a turnpike five miles io northwest of Richmond. There i s anothe r road just in the rear of this which also leads to t he rebel cap i tal. In moving down these roads General Gr ant will encounter the situation is so con tractedthe lines that o f t Lao's be; e is army, If the Chickahominy is in tended by Lsaa as the last line of defen ce, th e position h as e probability o bhili t e y itua of another fl an k movement being suc&ssitil, been well chosen. The stream itself is peculiarly adapted to the defensive warfare. The river is a small one, and flows sluggishly. It divides itself into half a (Eva strearnlets, running into and out of each other at random. These water-courses occupy a s p ace a bout 70 yards in width. Immense trees grow up out of the water, and the entire stream is covered by thick woods. It is a remarsalle in. stance of a river running through and watering a long strip of woods. From each side of this woodland a flat surface extends for about half a mile. This is nearly always over flowed, and becomes an impassable morass. It is only when the water in the river is very low that men can safely walk upon the ground bordering it. On the fiat surfaces there is not a solitary tree. They are bare, and anything moving upon them can easily be discerned. From the borders of these plains huge hills, in some cases 200 and 300 feet high, abruptly rise. They are covered with thick woods, and are so steep that waggons cannot be hauled directly up their fees. The few roads go down them diagonally to the b ridges, across the swamp and river. This Chickahominy valley, one of the strongest in America, is the outer defence of Richmond. From the tops of the hills on the one side, across the swamp to the hill-tops on the other side, the distance varies from a mile to a mile and a-half. The ordi nary 12-pounder rifled Napoleon gun just about throws a shell from one hill -top to the other. From the Fredericks burg railroad crossing down to New-bridge, a distance of eight miles, the Confederate works are all along the hills on RS southern border, —,A ew York, World June I T l l-3E SUN, I.4OINDON, MONDA V EVENING, JUNE 13, 1864. The Chatham Siege Review, One of these scientific displays for which this garrison is so deservedly famous, and which from the natural facilities of the situation can be :wide to combine movements both by land and water on the most extensive scale, took place on Saturday in ithe presence of a great assemblage of spectators. It is seldom that more than one of these great siege assaults can he given at Chatham in the year, for the simple reason that their proper fulfilment involves all the labour in the way of throwing up regular parallels which would be re quired in an actual siege. In fact, for the last three months Chatham at the weakest part of its defences, the flank of the works on St. Mary's Creek, has been regularly and scientifically besieged—the first, second, and third parallels constructed, and every thing brought to that state at which nothing ree mains bat to deliver the general assault. Of course it is part of the Engineers' education to gain such a practical knowledge of siege works as can only be derived from the formation of regular approaches against a regularly fortified pace. Thus, all the works through which the attack was delivered on Saturday were constructed with precisely the same solidity and care as they would be by an enemy if attacking the garrison from St. Mary's Creek, and all the knowledge to be derived from the lesson of throwing up the works having then been achieved advantage was taken of their completion to give the public the spectacle of a final assault before all was destroyed and filled again. The attack was supposed to be made by daylight, and the besieged prepared to meet it by counteremines under the most advanced of the enemies' works—the trench cavalier, which overlooked them, and the lodgment they had made on the glacis of the Redan. They had also sunk torpedoes in St. Mary's Creek, across which they had constructed a boom, and as further security to this flank, had erected a strong blockade to prevent their line being turned. The besiegers were to come mence operations by blowing up the boom, opening fire along the whole line, forcing the passage of the creek in boats, while another assault by escalade on two points was made on the land side, where the breaching mines under the works of the besieged were sprung, end, through the opening effected by these, a general assault made. A review so novel and so varied in its operations of course drew together a great muster of visitors. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Louis of Hesse, and the Duke of Cambridge, with a large staff of officers, including Sir Richard Airey, Sir John Burgoyne, Lord Alfred Paget, Major Elphinstone, Hon. Col. Wrottesley, Colonel Keppel, Major Cowell, &c., came down to be present on this occasion. The Royal party travelled from Victoria in a special train, and were received at Chatham by Lord Harris, the chairman of the company, and General Eyre, the Commandant. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge both wore the un dress uniform of Generals, the Prince having also the Star of the Order of the Garter on his breast; Prince Alfred wore the full uniform of a lieutenant in the navy, Prince Arthur a Highland dress, and Prince Louis the Prussian cavalry uni form in which he appeared at the volunteer review in Hyde-park. A small party of German and French officers also followed in the royal suite. It was at one time announced that the Princess of Wales would honour the review with her presence, and great was the disappointment when it was known she would not come. Perhaps, however, on think ing the matter over, the good folks of Chatham will be consoled by recollecting that England has much more gratifying spectacles to afford the Princess than a public illustration of the terrible facility with which numbers can overpower an ill-succoured fortification. The royal party on their arrival par took of luncheon at the mess of the Royal Engi neers, after which chargers were brought round for the whole of the large party, who rode off at once to the first parallel, and so by the connecting zig• zags made a complete circuit of the besiegers' works. This occupied some little time, for they were of con siderable extent, and, as we have said, of the same solidity as the approaches used in warfare—better in afloat respects, and especially as regards finish, than any the English made in the Crimea. This inspection over, their Royal Highnesses proceeded to a small casemated battery in the centre, between the right and left attacking columns, and so placed as to command an entire view of the operations, both by land and water. On the left, near the creek, was the weak part of the position, where amid a debris of rough brickwork rose a much de faced battery with a litter of gabions behind it pre cisely similar, though on a smaller scale, to the . . _ position of the Russian Radan. This resemblance became painfully striking, when at the final move ment such thin and weak columns were seen issuing across the open to attack it, Oa the right the besieged were not much better off. The guns of the third parallel looked down upon them, a nest of rifle pits were in their front, while down into the Redan, their last hope, a trench cAvalier—that is a strong earthwork with its parapet covered with sandbags, with intervals between them for the riflemen to fire through—the strongest kind of loopholed wall in fact—was waiting for the signal to deal oat its murderous volleys. The besieged garrison were all men of the Marine Artillery, the besiegers Mat ines and Royal Engineers, so that the difference between the red uniforms of the latter and the blue undress of the former marked the lines of attack and defence most clearly. Before three o'clock all were in their places, and the view from the summits of the casemates, which were crowded with spectators, was wonderfully fine. The wide- spreading angular linas of attack and defence were clearly visible at every point, with the troops lying close in wait behind them. Out to sea, or at least on the waters of the Medway, mixed with the white hulls of the convict ships, lay several men-of-war, hugely conspicuous above them all being the dark hull and four lofty masts of the Achilles, round which and other ship was swarming quite a fleet of little boats armed with guns, and filled with coops, waiting for the signal to make their dash at the creek and turn the works by landing in their rear. Suddenly, amid profound quiet, the signal was given, soon after 3 o'clock, by a dull, heavy explosion from the middle of St. Mary's Creek, fol lowed by a quick rising column of smoke and water, which carried the fragments of the destroyed boom high into the air. All eyes were fixed on it as the mass slowly fell, leaving the creek covered with smoke and foam, and then on every side the long sustained roar and rattle of the attack and defence began. Then, indeed, the hopeless condition of the besieged was seen at a glance. Around them on every side, high over the devoted lines, and down in grassy nooks, where no on one dreamt that guns lay lurking, came the roar of guns which seemed to shake the air. From the rifle pits on the right front a coLstant sputtering fire was poured into every embraeure, while from the trench cavalier we have spoken of as looking into the demi-bastion of the redan came volleys, which swept the parapets opposed to it far and near. Though supposed to be surprised, disheartened, and over matched, yet the garrison, to do them justice, stuck to their posts as manfully as if they were Danes; all their guns were worked at the double quick, giving shot for shot as well as they could to the besiegers, while the infantry lined the parapets, and at least replied to if they could not keep down the volleys of musketry which were poured into them. But now a new foe came upon the scale. With the first signal the boats from the men-of-war had started towards the creek, and taking up dif ferent piAitions, so as to enfilade some of the de fenofechees 1 , ,kieoptto n o pe nearly s y t h e a ti d i f y t , h r e a w p i o d r k fi e r , e w , s h u i e p h p o n s o e w d t w o e b r e e encircled with attacking guns close in their front on land, but not harassed by the quick distant fire of the boats at sea, which were so actively engaged as to cover the Medway with wreaths of smoke. T e twoside the beseiged, as a l as t o pressed onevery sprang their mines—one under th e cavalier, li r e c r e ,which was doing them such murderous mischief, one under the lodgment the enemy had effected in the redan. As the spectators were so close to these spots both the mines were of small charges, only sufficient to destroy the profile of the works and drive the enemy out of them, which they did most effectually. Thus for a moment relieved, the besieged turned their attention to the boats, and sprung their first torpedo under water. These tor pedces, the most modern and most destructive en. gine of river warfare, were ranged in a line of six across the month of the creek. Some were made of tin cases, other were differently contrived on a new principle, on which it is unnecessary to be more explicit, and all were lit by the voltaic battery, carrying the spark through insulated wires into the centre of the charge. Though these tor pedoes had been down a week in 30 feet of water, and contained charges varying from 1001 b to 1601 h of powder, yet not one failed to explode. The first, though a small charge, threw a great mass of water 60 feet into the air, and at this alarm all the boats drew hurriedly away, as column after column of water and smoke rising to a tower ing height, and falling in a shower of foaming showed the imminence of the danger they had escaped. The last of the spray all over the creek, tor pedoes fired was one containing 1601 b. of powder, and the effect of this was apparently tremendous enough in force to have broken the back of a three decker. In the meantime the besiegers were by no means idle; on the contrary, the fire of both guns and rifles was redoubled, if possible, from every point, and it was evident that the crisis of the general assault was at hand. The besiegers had altogether 11 heavy guns, eight mortars, and these were going at once, fearwhen soddenly howitzers, h and er e all was a lull, and on the left and centre the assaulting columns were seen hurrying across the open with scaling ladde r s. In a few t minutes afterwards these were planted by the left column at the re-entering angle of the redan, and the men swarmed up like bees on to the para pet. Bat though the parapet was easily gained, the work of this column was only begun, for beyond lay one of the permanent dry ditches of the Chat ham lines—a brick fosse some 30 feet deep find nearly 50 feet wide. There was no escalading or jumping this, and the besieged were keeping up a fierce fire on the column from the interior line of works beyond the fosse. The advance of the left column was thus completely checked, but not for long. Covered by the fire of their comrades, a group of sappers crept round the edge of the ditch with guy ropes, and then, once across, those left on the other side affixed the ropes to a single legged " turtle," which was hauled into the centre of the fosse, and then steadied by the guy ropes, and with this for their centre pin, the sappers, with marvel. lons rapidity, proceeded to construct a Birogah bridge—a piece of military engineering which we have copied from the Austrians, as we have copied so very many other good ideas of theirs of the same kind. Actually in almost less time than we have taken to describe it this bridge across the fosse war built, and built so strongly that the instant it was finished hundreds of men dashed across it, and even cannon was afterwards brought over it. Directly this work was done there was an end of the defence of the parapet by the be. sieged, who retired behind a strong timber palisade which enclosed the rear of the work; and between the interstices of this they kept up a fire on the attacking column, which was then again checked. There was no scaling this fence nor forcing it with out cannon ; so cannon were sent for, and as no horses could move in such a place, the men had to do the work themselves, and splendidly they did it. They got a field piece up a bank which they them selves had previously to scale with ladders, got it over the Birogah turtle, and lowered it bodily down, ammunition waggon and all, into the courtyard in front of the palisade, and with its first discharge made the defence of the latter hopeless. The be. sieged saw that all was over at this part of the defences, and retired in more haste than order— that ir, to use an Americanism—they "ran like blacks." Their now pursuers were instantly through the stockade and close upon them, while the work of the single gun which was firing through the stockade into the retreating mass of the be siegers was supposed to prevent their re-forming. The attacking column, therefore, cleared the de fenders from the casemate barracks with little oppo sition, and, still following the besieged, forced their way through the postern and over the right face of the work into Prince Edward's Bastion, where the besieged enrrendered, and the struggle was at end at this point. Oa the centre the attack was shorter and equally successful. The coin= stormed almost at once, first with a rush, carrying the close line of rifle pits which covered the front of the besieged works. The poor besieged at this point were very hard pressed indeed, for, having now no fear of booms or tor pedoes before their eyes, boats filled with troops were seen hurrying fast up the creek, and, in spite fire, succeeded waseded i getting past the bat• t o e f ri a es h . e A av tasent to oppose their land ing and defend the stockade, w hil e anot h er soug h t to dislodge the assailants from th e r ifl e pits i n f ront heavy fire c of the batteries. Both attempts failed. The sailors and troops landed after a hot fight, and all being now ready, the besiegers sprung their great mine full in the centre of the enemies' batteries. This mine was beautifully laid, and was the most im portant mine of the day. It consisted of several 2001 b. charges, placed at a great depth, so that when at the proper moment it was fired the mass of earthworks rose with a heavy, sullen heave, and were spread over the earth, leaving an aperture through which waggons might be driven. Before the smoke had cleared away the column was at a run to storm this breach, which was still despe!ately defended by the besieged, till another loud explo-_ sion far behind told that the landing party had blown up the stockade and taken all of what now remained of the whole line of defences completely in the rear. Thence it Was a running and hopeless fight on the part of the besieged. They retired to their inner line, which may be considered as a re- ,rencbment, near the Cumberland Bastion, but had now to meet the attacks both of the centre column and that which had landed up the creek. Betwcen the two this last line was soon forced in two places, amid a tremendous din of cannon and musketry. The final fight of the besieged brought the proceedings to a close, after a short, though one of the most varied and brilliant reviews which the public have ever seen. At the close of the review the troops m arc h e d past in front of the Engineers' Memo r i a l A rc h, n ear the barracks, and this over, th e Royal party returned at once to Victoria Station in a special train, whi ch only stopped to set down P r ince Arthur and Major Elphinstone at Beckenham, on their way to Black. heath. Lieut,-Colon e l L o vell, C.B , R.E. , was the engineer officer directing the attack , and Lieut.- Colonel Browne, C. 8., R.E., defended the works, while the boat pa r ty was u nder Captain Studdart, R.N. Attached to the several columns of attack were the following engineer officers: — Left Attack.—To attend the column, Lieutenant Burke; trench cavalier, Lieutenant Wynne. Centre Attack.—To attend the column, Lieute nant Brooke; lodgment, Lieutenant Bell. Right Attack.—T o clear the breaches , Lieute nants Clayton, L. K. Scott, asd W atkins ; in char g e of 3-pounders, L ieutenant Larminie. Boat Attack.—T o d e stroy the boom , Lieutenant Frere ; to destroy th e s t oc kade, Lieutenant Richard - SOD ; to lead the troops, boats, &c., Lieutenant Ramsey; gunbo a t s , Li eu tenant Heneage. Reserve•—L e f t co l umn , Lieutenant Taylor; right column, Lieutenant BougheY• GOLD AND SILVER.—There was no gold sent into.the Bank on Tharsday, £31,000, on the other hand, was withdrawn for export. .A. little more demand pre vailed for silver, at a slight advance, for transmission to India. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—OOIII3IIIIIOOII, all nervous, bilious liver, and stomach c om pl a i n ts, in every stage, are Only ag g,ravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914. Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hope s o f h er re covery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with fearful coug h, ex p e ctoration, exhaustion, spitting o f bl oo d , perspirations, c h o o m ll ini ow ss c a h ir e e ek : Police. emaciated to a skeleton. Sh e is now, thank God, a perfectly di healthy, Cure, blo N blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange,o. 46,270. lungs,James s pttun Roberts, g o t o blood,f l'rlin liver d era ngement, and parti a l d ea fness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Eli z abeth Jacobs, of ex t rem e nervousness, indigestion, Surrey, of thirty years' sea Mserd. gatherings, low spirits, and nervous faxcies.—Cure, No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 25 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, 11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No, 77, Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grown and chemists in eve' toWn COW Vilited Xingdm j The lonians and the English Troops, - A. The following compliments have been inter changed between the Municipal Council of Corfu and the commander of the garrison To THE ENGLISH GARRISON. Valiant Sons of England,—By a generous decision of your august Queen the wishes of this Grecian land have been granted, and you are about to leave this island, on which you have resided with us for half a century; and nobly have you behaved towards us. The Municipal Council of this island, under the influence of the unspeakable joy which it experiences in this memo rable change in its destiny at the moment of its entering a new career of national existence, cannot without emotion witness your departure and leave unexpressed the senti ments of sympathy that it entertains for the great nation to which you belong. As free citizens of a free nation you will not be indignant at the exuberant joy of a people passing from foreign pro tection to national liberty, nor will you consider it in any way connected with your departure, which affects us exceedingly and causes us to express from out hearts the warmest wishes for your welfare, and for that of your illustrious country to which we feel bound by ties of gratitude and hope. Farewell, brave sons of England, Forget, as we do, whatever may tend to mar our mutual love. Love us as we love you, 'And desire that we may imitate your national virtues, D. COURCOITMELY, Regent. S. A. MusToxini. G. TOMBRO. A. TRIFONA. M. PADOVAN. A. DELVINIOTTI. D. A. COURCOU3IELY, Secretary to the Municipal Council. Corfu, June 1, 1864. The following is the answer sent to the munici pality by Major-Seneral Sir Robert Garrett, K.C.B. : On the eve of departure with the British troops under my command, whose duty of garrisoning the lonian Islands will this day cease, I hasten to thank you for the spirit in which the address which you transmitted to me yesterday for the English garrison has been framed, and for the ex pression of your warmest wishes for ourselves individually and for that of our country. On behalf of the garrison I beg most cordially to reciprocate our earnest wishes for the welfare of yourselves and for that of your country. To the President and members of the Municipal Council a very large portion of the inhabitants of this island, no doubt, look for countenance and support, and so long as they receive encouragement from yourselves to cherish feel ings of loyalty to your King, to practice obedience to the constituted authorities, to exert energy and industry in following agriculture and commerce, and, at the same time, living in friendship and harmony with each other, they can hardly fail to attain, under Providence, that welfare which our country has mainly attained by adopting and observing these principles. In the name of the private soldiers whom I have the honour to command I request you will be pleased to make known to the inhabitants of the country round Corfu, and to those of the town itself, how fully they have appreciated the kindly feelings which they have unremittingly evinced towards them. Again repeating the assurances of our very best wishes for the welfare of you all, I now, in the name of the British garrison, bid you most heartily farewell. R. GARRETT, Major-General, Commanding the British in the lonian Islands, Extraordinary Charges of Cruelty by Parents to their Children, limnnoun, Saturday Evening. This day, at the sitting of the county magistrates at the Town-ball, Hertford, Mr Besley, barrister, made applica tion for summonses against John Joseph Slowe, a bailiff and head gardener to Mr Baker, chairman of the bench of ma gistrates of the county, and Caroline his wife, for inhuman and gross cruelty to Annie Slowe, his daughter, 17 years of age, by beating, dragging her about by her hair, and other acts of an atrocious description. There are a number of other charges of a similar nature against other members of the family, but action was only taken at present as regards the one above stated. The magistrates on the bench were W. R. Baker Esq. (chairman), W. Parker, Esq., J. True man, Esq., H. Gosling, Esq., Wynn Ellis, Esq., and C. J. Dimsdale, Esq. Mr Besley, barrister, instructed by Messrs Sbaen and Roscoe, on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, appeared for the complainant, and having stated the matter to the bench, Mr Longmore, the Town Clerk, suggested that they should take sufficient evidence to warrant the granting of a summons. The magistrates said that the complainants had better he sworn, which was done. Mr Longmoro then read the following statement:— Annie Slowe—l am servant to Mr Bussey, of 14. Eton villas, Haverstock-hill, London. lam a single woman. I was 17 in December last. I lived with my father and mother, John Joseph Slowe and Caroline Slowe, at Bay fordbury, till September last. My father is gardener and bailiff to Wm. Baker, Esq., and we lived on bis estate. I was away from home once for about twelve months at Sheffield with my brother. With that exception I have always lived at home till I left last September. My father and mother have both constantly beaten and otherwise ill-used me as long as I can recollect anything. For the most trifling offences I have been most severely beaten with whips, ropes, and sticks. When I was very young I was constantly severely beaten by my mother because I could not say the word temptation in ray prayers. On one occasion, about four or five years ago, I was tied quite naked in an arm chair, and my father threw several bowls of cold water over me, after which I was taken from the chair and severely ' beaten. On another occasicn my mother threw a saucepan at me because it was not cleaned properly, and then she told my father to punish me for it. My father then seized me by the hair of the head and threw me down with my face upon some rough matting, and knocked my face upon the mat ting till it bled from every part, I received the last beating from my father in August last, because I had not cleaned the house to my mother's Kith faction. 'She complained of me to my father, and he said, " Now, my lady, I give you ht. If and hour. Clean the furniture in this room, clean the grate, and set the room in order," I could not get the work done in the time, although I tried to do so; and my father then took a strong stick, held me by one hand, and got a table between us, so that I could net close with him to avoid the blows, and gave me a most severe beating. Sooh after this in consequence of the threats of my father and mother I ran away from home to avoid further ill treatment. I believe it was on the 2d September when I left home. I have lived in London ever since. Up to the time that I left home my sister Isabella, who is about two years younger than myself, was treated with greater severity than I was, both by my father and mother. My sits' er Caro line, who is several years older than I am, and has very bad health, was also subjected to the same ill-usage when ever she was at home. My mother generally instigated my father to beat us. Annie Slowe said the statement read was quite true. Mr. Besley wished to state the reasons why this matter had remained over since August. About this time an aunt named Hills was staying with Slowe and his wife for a few days, and her presence caused partly a cessation of the punishment, but Annie was promised a double quantity when she left, and those threats so operated on her feelings that on the 2d of September, before her father and mother had come down stairs, she determined on running away, and as she had no money of her own she took 8s from her aunt's pocket, She walked to Cole-green station at an early hour in the morning, and made her way to London. She wanted to go to Mr. Bussey's, at Haverstock-bill, where her sister v as, hut she could not find it, and she then made her way to the Servants' Home, where her father found her and took away all her clothes except what she was wearing. She remained at the Servants' Home for three weeks, and was protected by her sister's mistress until a situation was found for her with a Mrs. S. Ford, of Long-acre. She re mained with her for three months, but taking the small-pox she became the inmate of an hospital for two months. When she came out she went for a time to her sister's, and after wards to Mrs. Bussey's, as nursemaid, where she was at present. That would account why the matter had not been brought forward before. Mr. Lungmoro asked the girl why she had not complained before, and she said she was afraid to do so. The Chairman said there had been a private investigation, and as nothing had subsequently occurred how was it that the subject had been brought up again? Mr Besley said the reason was, that a scrap of paper, evidently posted surreptitio us l y , was received b y M rs. Winston from her sister Caroline, in which she alluded to her si s t er Isabella, who was still a t home, and about whom she was most anxious. In this paper she said that Isabella was undergoing the most severe treatment, and that unless soon rescued would sink under it, and she went on to say that a fortnight after wards the same sister was seen with a severe cut on the face, known to be result of her father's brutality. She went on to allude to two other younger sisters, Mary Ann and Florence, aged 9 and 11 years, and she said she believed they had been well treated up to the present, and had not received corporal punishment, but these children from their infancy had suffered great mental agony in consequence of being compelled to be witnesses of the sufferings of their sisters, The object of this application was mainly for the protec tion of the younger children, and it was with this view that the society felt it to be its duty to make the present appli cation to the bench for a summons against the parents of these children. The magistrates having conferred for a few minutes toge ther, Mr. Dimsdale said that the summons would be granted The hearing of the case will therefore stand for a future day. AN AFFECTING SCENE!—When tile name of the French Winner of the Grand Prix was announced, says the Spectator, the Due de Morny, President of the Legislative Body, wept upon the bosom of the ovmer, ill, ihlamarre, as an evidence of his patriotism. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE SPECTATOR.—Is the Ministry trying to trick the country i ) We feel it had to believe that a Cabinet of which Earl Russell is a member is lending itself to any attempt of the kind, but facts begin to look very like it. Certainly ii they were trying to obtain a position in which they could be tray Denmari without risk of a sudden explosion of wrath from the constituencies and Parliament they;would do very mach what they are doing now. Ten days ago they had apparently reached the very last limits of concession, surrendered the honour of Denmark, and seriously risked that of England in a last endeavour to conciliate men who are under a monomania. They, the authors of the treaty of 1852, who had pledged themselves that if Den mark were assailed she " should not stand alone," who had admitted in writing the duty of main taining the " integrity and independence" of their little ally, had proposed her dismemberment, had proposed to give the assailant a limb if only he would consent to spare the rest of the bleeding trunk. Denmark, after a natural emotion of dis gust, remembered that she was weak, and that jus tice had ceased for the moment to be a principle in politics, and accepted the neutral offer as her own ultimatum, Her representatives had, to show their sincerity, declined to extend the armistice beyond a fortnight, preferring rather to perish in a new campaign than to suffer the enemy to live at ease in Danish provinces, and lose all chance of inflict. ing retribution by sea. The Germans not only declined the neutral offer, but actually demanded instead of the line of the Schlei a line drawn through Apenrade, a territory equal to more then three-fifths of Schleswig, full of purely Danish villages, and far to tho North of the only frontier which Denmark in any future coneession could hope to defend. The object of course was simply to make such arrangements as should make the annexation of Jutland a year or two hence an easy and comparatively bloodless pro ceeding. The old game of partition was to be played over again, with England and France for duped spectators. To this decision the invading Courts, though sorely annoyed by the refusal of the Prince of Augustenburg to promise that he will enslave his subjects as they have done, still adhere, the organ of Herr von Bismark declaring in words which must be his own, that they have such a ring of his voice, that the allies have only to remain in the Duchies they have conquered, and "see who will drive them out." Instead, however, of accept ing this reply, declaring the Conference at an end, and proposing to Parliament a definite line of ac tion, Earl Russell assents to an extension of the Conference for a fortnight, fixes the next meeting at an interval of seven days, gives Parliament no information, and to all human seeming intends, when the war recommences, to allow Denmark to be swallowed while standing idly by. After actually proposing the dismemberment of the Power he pro fessed to defend, after consenting to reward the Germans for an act of aggression without a pre text—compliance with their demands having been guaranteed by England, Russia, and France—he has not the nerve to enforce his own proposition, and allows himself to be beaten from point to point till, as was lately observed, " He won't give up Schleswig to Germany, but she may have the two halves." This will never do. Whatever the diver sity of feeling in Parliament on the subject of war for the Danes, we do trust there will be sufficient spirit left in the House of Commons, if the Confer ences rises re iiVecta, and the Premier declines to propose action, to punish the Ministry which has covered England with such disgrace. The internal difflcultias of the Cabinet are no excuse for the conduct of its chiefs. Earl Russell has already stated that whatever the Queen's opinions, Her Majesty has always accepted constitutional advice, and it was no part of his duty so to frame that advice that it would be certain to be accept able. If he believed the circumstances demanded the despatch of the fleet to the Baltic, he should have sent the fleet to the Baltic or resigned. Nur is Mr. Gladstone's opposition to be considered a reason for quiescence when the dignity of Great Britain demanded energetic action. The Ministry may lose with him a strong section of its supporters ; but the whole nation is al ways in the majority, and it is to the nation that the Premier should have appealed. There is not a class in the country which would not have eagerly responded, which is not weary of German arrogance, sick to rage of Ger man interference in our affairs. So strong is the feeling, that were it not even now befooled by the false hopes held out by diplomacy the middle class might take the bit in its teeth, as it did in the days of the Crimean war, and read the Parliamentary chiefs a lesson which would send a dozen old men out of power, and bring the Times round one sud den gyration as the mouthpiece of war feeling. Unfortunate as the position of parties is, with the Court hampered by personal ties, the Cabinet in two by financial fears, the Tory leaders either German in :one or afraid of responsibility, and all parties, so to a,”eak, deprived of their natural chiefs, there is still; we trust, energy enough iu the Commons to to brand failureso conspicuous. The recognize and Tories, so far as' public decle rations go, are in this matter no more prepared to uphold the honour of the nation than the old Whigs, brat at least they have not so mismanaged diplomacy as to make England the executioner of a victim on whose behalf her Premier had threatened war; they can stand aside, and let the burial proceed in a silence which, if it has in it little dignity, has at least less humiliation. Eng land has had many squeezable Ministries, but a Cabi net which could retreat five separate times from its own ultimatum rather than risk the anger of Heir von Bismark, which, after a voluntary pro. mise of aid, could surrender first Holstein, then Schleswig in occupation, then Lsuenberg, then Schleswig south of the Schlei in perpetuity, and now, perhaps, Scnleswig south of Flensberg, and all this without a defeat, is a phenomenon in our annals. We trust Germany will not ask for Kent as inheritor of the Angles, for, for all that appeals, these men would make that a " basis of a negotia tion," There is but one hope that we can perceive, either for the Ministry or for English honour. Lord Palmerston, unwil'ivg to close a grand career as the laughingstock of Europe, may at the eleventh hour insist on having his own way, declare that con cession has reached its limits, and at any risk, either of income-tax, or what he deems much more, upris ing of the nationalities, propose publicly that if the line of the Schlei is passed, Great Britain will ap peal from the justice of Germany to that of the God who for ten centuries has blessed all English action. It he does, the position of parties in the house does not matter much, for the constituencies will be masters of the position, and we would not guarantee even Mr Gladstone a seat; if he does not, he may leave the task of safe inglorious government to Lord Clarendon, but his retirement will be passed among a people finally disenchanted of a long enduring faith in his honour and his pluck. THE LONDON REVIEW.—The policy of her Ma jesty's Ministers with reference to the Danish question formed the subject of a short but interest ing and animated debate in the House of Commons on Monday night. Mr. Disraeli became for once the organ of a feeling thoroughly general, both in Parliament and in the country, when he complained, in ind gnant language, of the manner in which the Government are concealing from the nation their course of action or inaction. It was, he argued, rather too much 'that the representatives of the English people should be the only persons kept, or supposed to be kept, in ignorance of the proceedings of the Conference. They did not desire to be ad mitted to a knowledge of the right of negotiation, but they had a right to know on what basis this was being conducted. Lord Palmerston had ob tained their confidence by stating that he and his colleagues were about to uphold the Treaty of 1852. They had been willin g to abstain from embarrassing discussions, and to restrain their natural curiosity, lest they shoula endanger the success of policy of which they approved. But it was rather too much that the Government, having thus obtained complete freedom of action, should use it for the promotion of a measure—the dismemberment of Denmark—to which the house of Commons had never assented, and from which a large portion of them were ent i re l y aver se. As the right hon. gentleman observed, force, "no Minister is entitled to ask for of parliamen tary reticence and reserve pro g ressdurinfnitfihrle with unanswerable fulfilled t he great negotiations, if he has not t reserve—that r y and generally p I place, ee his condition of such parliamenfiteareernytb policy shall be known to the If _ he follows a policy approved by Parliament. be right, it may b e poss ible - totally contrary , it to justify it; but w m h a e y a that change takes especially at a moment like the present, when th e cont i nua t i on of an ar misti ce i s in question, he is bound to come forward and frankly tell us, Our po li c y is changed. We are perfectly prepared to vindicate our course. All we ask is that you should continue your confidence to us, or at least that you s hould call our conduct in question, and let it receive either the sanction or reprobation of the House of Commons.' " This is language con sistent both with the principles of the constitution and the dictates of common sense. Confidence in a Minister must have its limits. It is monstrous that he should assume an authority to eommit the country irrevocably to one course, under pretence of pursuing another. And it is idle to justify his reserve towards the House of Commons—if, indeed, we should not characterise his conduct by a harsher word —on the plea that frankness would imperil the success of negotiations which it may well be that they are prepared to condemn. Lord Pal merston could make no reply—attempted to mak e no reply —to arguments to obvious and so sound. He took refage . in a palpable mis re . presentation of Mr. DierAell'o oreecbs and is the , ---- - angry repetition of an irrelevant challenge to the Opposition. We fear it is too true that the Conservatives, as a party, are little more dis posed than the Whigs to adopt a vigorous and manlY course. But the Opposition are not bound to I P-7 down a policy, while it is the first duty of a Go . vernment to do so. It is no excuse for the weaktief , °l the vacillation, or the ambiguous conduct of those who hold office that their successors would probably do no better, and might—though that is scarcely' credible—do worse. _ THE " EXA MIN ER" ON CONVICT DISCIPLINE.--" We We have l o n g been convinced that the conjltyt licensing syst em i s i ncura bl y b a d, a nd shoalcA,. oe abolished alt oge th er . Th e superv i s i o n of thepolice will not mend it, but, on the contrary, will be a ha to the reformation of the criminals if they have any disposition t o t a k e to i n d ustry an d h one st courses. As the Chan ce ll or o bj ects , t h e superv i s ion will D . a brand on th e conv i ct , shutting him out from e r n ployment a n d h onest i ntercourse . Th e man will go out of jail w ith a b ro k en f etter at t ac hed to hi . by which he will b e d ragge d b ac k t o crime. he has any sense, to ge th er w i t h i mprove d dispositions , he will refus e t o accept lib erty on suc h terms, and will rather w a it f or t h e exp i rat i on o f his s entenc . c,. when ho will go f ort h a f ree man, i ns t ea d of a him , bird with a clipped wing. The discharged convict has a fair fi e ld b e f ore hi m if h i s dispos i t i on s are fall . ; His past may be unknown, and retrieved by good t l conduct. The police h ave no r i g ht to spy W 4 him, or meddle w ith hi m i n any way, s o long es obeys the law s an d lives honestly. He passes from the jail, mi xes i n t h e crowd, and may begin a neNv. career without prejudice or impediment of Or kind. But the unhappy ticket-of-leave Wal l ' tracked from his first quitting the jail, and made report himself peri o di ca ll y to the poiicpr will never get away from his character. 111 1 character may be ch ange d, b ut the bran' . upon it remains unchanged and saliently conspicuous. And because of the very hopes of him it is that he is to be placed in this hopeles s condition. Becasue it is thought that he may. re* form he is to be practically cut off from reformatl en g if the man is not to be trusted, keep the ja i l door closed upon him ; but to trust him so far as to le him t out, and then to retract the trust by puttmg him uncler the eye of the police, is a gross and .mis chievous inconsistency, cruelly defeating the obJ e , i ; of reformation. When the convict who has f° ll - 7 1 .. undergone his punishment is discharged, it may not be with the slightest ex p ec t at i on or hope t h a t an" will change his evil w a y s , b ut , trustworthy or 0° forth he must go, f ree f or goo d or ill ; and why ~t' not the same course be taken with men of who m ; better hopes can b e en t er t a i ne d ? It may be oes," not to abridge senten ces a t a ll , b ut i f they are to 1.- abridged we are quite sure that the true policy . 1s not . to hamper the granted liberty with any o °, lll l lions which may be adverse to the recovery of euat r.acter arid honest employment. We are heartily sick of the twaddle, for it is no better, about tu working of the licensing system in Ireland. I ke stem has only a p ar ti a l success there, but it it b ad s the most complete, the stat e o f op i n i on in Ireland% to crime is so different f rom t h at i n Englan d, that the e same results cou ld never b e worked out , e sPei many with a machinery as different as the in nre element. When Mi s t ress D e b orah Woodcoc k tel her brother the Justice that the pretended Inn" master is a vag a b on d, Justice Woodcock answers' " What of that, you foolish old woman ? I l ike vagabond, I like a vagabond." And when Irelan. is told that a man is a law-breaker, her reply 15 much to the same eff ec t. Ireland h a s not ni nel, objection to convicts, nay, t o some a decide d P refer ,;; ence is given. This b e i ng th e case generally,supervision of the polic e i s c l ear o f two d an gers I t which it will be exposed in this country does not carry with it much prejudice against h convicts, nor ma r k th em out for exclus i on f r t oul l employment and intercour se; an d t hi s b e i n g so, 1 does not tempt conv i cts to purchase the s i len ce 04 , good report of the spi es over t h em. H ere we are certain of much of both these bad consequences: and the supervision of the police will, we a PY r n e f hend, work th e corrupt i on of the police, in aPite; any checks that may be devised. The ticketsoi leave man always quits the jail with a little money. money in his pocket, and he has the strongee! motive to obtain the silence of the police as to what he has been, and it s goo d report as to w hat be . s. With so large a b o d y as t h e pol i ce, and so variously composed, can we believe that there will not he. some corruptible, and the vice, once introduced , is sure to spread ? COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK--SATURDAY. There was only a moderate supply of wheat at market to day, and the buyers operated slowly, prices being the turn in their favour. Very little barley shown, trade limited, and last week's rates maintained. Oats healthy, at rather more money. Beans scarce, and a fair amount of busines6 was done at the lute extreme prices. Wheat, red 378 to 39s Oats.... lBs to 20 White do .40s to 44s Beans ........... 33, to 353 Barley .268 to 30s Peas to ••••" 49 Malt, 588 to 60 8 p er qr . ; rye, 28 8 per qr ; flour, 27 3 to.29Biper sack. GRANTHAM —SATURDAY. Old white wheat,:4ls to 458; red, 38s to 41s per 364. 3 new white, 408:,to 448; red, 378;:to 408. Malting barley, 338 to 36s per qr ; grinding, 288 to 30s; oats, old, 248 t ) 265; new, 208 to 248; beans, 34s to 38s ; peas, 338 to 375. LE ICE STER—SATuBDAY. New white wheat, 42s to 455; red,' 39s to 41s peT 36 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, nialtifigr new, 31s to 35s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; old oats► 26s to 30s; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. 136 ' 114 old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 25s to 30s per 20 stone• NORIVICII—SATURDAY. There was a good supply of wheat to-day, with a 1.6 .,1 inactive trade, at a b ou t t h e rates of this day se ' nnig h t . other articles scarcely anything doing. White wheat. 42 s to 44 s 1 R ed wheat 3Ss to 4 00 Malting barley 35s to 36s 1 Chevalier barley Distilling d 0..... 29 s t o 30 s O ats.. Flour, 2os Od t o 26 s Od per sack froui the miller' 2 3 4 3 ,9 , to 26e git: NOTTI NGIIAM=SATURDAY. ; A moderate show o f w h ea t to• day, with a dull imps, I pt pt barely late pric es . B ar l ey li mited in supply, with a qu'fi, business, and last w ee k' s rates fully supported. ": j a better demand, an d l ate pr i ces were supported. Be" - d„ good demand, at hi g h p r i ces, b ut scarce. Peas uncharl e ss. —White wheat, from 378 to 408; red wheat, 3 t 3 s t° n - Barley—malting, 30s to 378 ; grinding, 27s to 295. le i old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, 19s to 265. Beans sold at to 42s per qr. ; new, 35s to 38s. 2cFlour, fine, 27s to 298 ; super, 31s to 36s per 20 stone. DUBLIN—FRIDAY. f eig The market gener a lly no t so b r i sk us last day ; `'-- i d. country buyers up, an d t ra d e i n foreign wheat litnite, Maize elow. Fl our steady. Irish produce all unchange d' a d. s. d. s. d. 8. d. '':-, 0 Wheat, white.. 24 o to 26 6 Oatmeal lO otol. 0 Do., red...... 21 Gto 24 0 Beans.. Do., new .... oto 0 Bere - 0 Barley ...... 11 6t014 6 Rapeseed . . —otO -- 0 0 to 2 9 0 Oats ........ 90to 12 0 Bakers' flour l4 Do., black.... oto 0 Indian corn ~,, 27 oto 2° 0 to -- 0 - - Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, v v i i a ai\ S i o a u r t a h e a il m le p a to . s . t. .......... J • T u a n n e e i t Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Cape of Good H o p e , A scens i on, and St. Helena.. June China, Penang, and Sin ga p ore , v i a Southampt on. June 1.. via Marseilles ...June 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June ---• India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton JunelB - M ars eilles June 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. .. June IL. Jane 20. via Marseilles Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 11. --via Marseilles July 5 Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo ............ ..••••..•........ U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 16. by U.S. packet 0 060 _ by Canadian packet. June;l7, All parts of West Indies, including Chili, I'eru ' 1 June 13 California. and British Columbia. . Births. DELAMAIN.—On the 3d inst., at Jersey, the wife of Colonel C. H. Delamain, C. 8., of a son. D'EYNCOURT —On the 10th inst., at 27, Warwick-squareo the Lady Henrietta D'Eyneourt, of a daughter. head PENNANT. —On the 10th i nst , at Formosa, near Ne lda; , the wife of Geor ge D oug l as P ennant, E sq ., of son. Marriages, DA.TIES— JENKINS.—On the 9th inst. at Cardigan, Dr4vies, Esq., of B a nk H ouse , Cardigan, M a y o r of the Borough, t o M ary , youngest daughter of th e late Griffith Jenkins, Esq., of P a nt er i on , P em b rokesh i re. HIGGINB—GROUCOCK,—On. the 9th inst., at Waters " Upton, John Higgins, E sq ., o f L u b stre - par k, Shrop shire, to Eli za b e th, e ld est daughter of the lute Th o L usa Ci roueock, Esq., of Mees on , Sh rops hi re. Thos. Deaths. CLOVES.—On the 10th inst., at Ealing, Edmund Cloves, Esq , late of Warton, Lancashire, aged 78. MILES—On the 10th inst., at hi.s residence, 3, York-place , Thornton-heath, Surrey, James Miles, Esq., bite of King's-road, Chelsea, aged 54. POW:LETT.— Oa the 9th inst., at Homingham, the Hou. Charles William Powlett, only son of Lord and Lady Bayning, aged 19. SCOTT. —On tha 10th inst., at Belgany, Ireland, the lionci Louisa Scott, widow of James B. S co tt, E s q., Q•C" and third daughter of the late Hon and Most Rev. Charles Brix:rick, Archbishop of Cashel, aged 71. TEMPEST.—On the 11th inst., at 33, Chester-square, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P., aged 39. Titomis.—On the 9th inst., in Blonifield, Harrow-road) Colonel Alfred Th omas, l ate of the B om b ay Anal. London : Printed and reblished by WILLIAM ANDIaWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tu Surf Office No. 112, Strand, lii the Precinct of the 3avoy, in the CO WY BLiddiesex, r joaday, Jule 13, 1804